NCT03398590

mHealth Intervention for Older Adults

Promoting Lifestyle Changes With Mobile Health Technologies for Overweight or Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes - Feasibility and Acceptability Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of a self-regulation theory-based mHealth behavior intervention for overweight or obese older adults with T2DM.

Detailed description

This is a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of a self-regulation theory-based mHealth behavior intervention for overweight or obese older adults with T2DM. The main purpose of the intervention is to increase participants' awareness of their behavior patterns and to self-regulate their daily lifestyle behaviors using the results of self-monitoring of weight and blood glucose. This is a One Group Pretest-Posttest Designed study. Ten participants will be recruited from Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA. They will receive a 2-month, self-regulation theory-based weight loss intervention (five 60-minute, biweekly group sessions) and will be provided with a technology toolkit for self-monitoring including an (1) iPhone Plus, (2) the Lose It! app for self-monitoring of dietary intake, (3) Fitbit for self-monitoring of physical activity, (4) Bluetooth-enabled scale for daily weight, and (5) Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor for testing blood glucose levels. There will be a 1-month follow-up after intervention. Assessments will occur at baseline and the end of follow-up. The individual interviews will be conducted with the participants to learn about their experience of technology use to self-manage their weight and diabetes at the end of study.

Conditions

• Type2 Diabetes
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	self-regulation theory-based mHealth behavior intervention	Participants will receive a self-regulation theory-based mHealth behavior intervention (5 biweekly group sessions, 60 minutes /session). An experienced Certified Diabetes Educator from the Joslin Diabetes Center and PI (Dr. Zheng) who has been trained using self-regulation for weight loss will co-facilitate group sessions. The intervention combines diet modification and increased physical activity with a weekly weight loss goal as well as focuses on improving participants' three typical self-regulation strategies - self-monitoring, self-evaluation and self-reinforcement. Intervention duration will last 2 months with subsequent 1-month follow.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-12
• Primary completion: 2018-05-30
• Completion: 2018-05-30
• First posted: 2018-01-12
• Last updated: 2018-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States